page_title: Lauda station
section_title: Passenger services
hierarchical_section_title: Lauda station / Passenger services
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mittelrisalit auf der Gleisseite des ehemaligen Ämtergebäudes des Bahnhofs von Lauda, erbaut 1907. English: median risalit on the back side of former authorities' building at Lauda railway station, built in 1907.
context_page_description: Lauda station is a junction station in the town of Lauda-Königshofen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, where the northern section of the Tauber Valley Railway branches from the Franconia Railway. Lauda station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
context_section_description: Being on the Odenwald Railway and the Tauber Valley Railway, Lauda was for decades a stop for long-distance trains. In the peak years, there were ten express services daily, mainly of the long routes between Berlin and Stuttgart and between the Palatinate and Franconia. In 1886, the first direct connection ran to Berlin. Up until the Second World War, changing destinations were added, some with through coaches, such as Metz, Leipzig, Paris, Carlsbad (now Karlovy Vary), Dresden, Breslau (now Wrocław), Milan and Naples. In the interwar period, Deutsche Reichsbahn coaches ran from Berlin to Bad Mergentheim and back, with the coaches separated or attached in Lauda.
  With the division of Germany and the associated displacement of the traffic flows, the Hamburg–Stuttgart route replaced the route to and from Berlin. In the 1960s and 1970s, Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) operated through coaches on the Hamburg–Ulm route via the Tauber Valley Railway, with the coaches separated or attached in Lauda station. In 1991, DB opened the Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway, creating additional capacity for north–south traffic. This meant that the Würzburg–Stuttgart route and thus Lauda station lost its high-quality passenger trains. The only exception was the Interregio service, Rennsteig from Erfurt to Stuttgart, which was discontinued in 2001.
caption: Former office building, which has a central projection (May 2007)
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